Student shot at Armin Jahr Elementary School in Bremerton

Armin Jahr Elementary School sixth grader Kiomi Pavlock, 12, weeps outside the school on Wednesday. She lives across the street from where the third-grade student who was shot, and the girl was a friend of the family. Her dad James Pavlock, behind is hugging friend Misty Allen. (LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN)

One student was injured in a shooting at Armin Jahr Elementary School in East Bremerton.

Amina Kocer-Bowman, 8, was flown to Harborview Medical Center and taken into surgery within five minutes of her arrival, said Susan Gregg, hospital spokeswoman. She was taken out of surgery around 5 p.m. She was taken to the intensive care unit, where she is in critical condition.

Her family is at the hospital.

"They're not doing any interviews right now, they are just focusing on their daughter," Gregg said.

Gregg confirmed it was a gunshot wound but could not release any further details of the injury.

Amina was shot in the stomach by another student at about 1:30 p.m., just as students were being let out of school. A firearm was reportedly found in a third-grade classroom and one student was detained.

Many parents were at the school to pick up students after school let out. School staff members ordered them to get back in their cars after the shooting happened, but by about 2:15 p.m. they were able to begin collecting their children.

Officers from Bremerton Police, the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office and the Washington State Patrol were all on scene.

The shooting comes on the heels of another homicide in Poulsbo early Wednesday morning. Bremerton police also are investigating two stabbing homicides and a third assault that may be the work of a single suspect.

"I've always felt safe and I don't feel safe anymore," said Jennifer Barber, 32, who was at the school to pick up her fourth-grade daughter. "We've got serial killers running around, third-graders with guns. It's ridiculous."

Wednesday's incident at Armin Jahr is not the first this school year in which Kitsap County students have been found with a gun.

Two 10-year-old boys were arrested in October 2011 at Silverdale Elementary after a .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol was confiscated from one of them. The student who brought the gun to school allegedly had planned to give it to the other student to use against a family member.

The gun was discovered after another student reported a rumor it was in a backpack. The boy who brought the gun to school was charged with theft of a firearm, and school district officials imposed an undisclosed punishment, calling it a "teaching moment" for the boys.

In November 2011, a 15-year-old was arrested after allegedly bringing a gun onto school campuses in Central Kitsap and North Kitsap. The suspect reportedly brought the gun to Central Kitsap High School and later brandished it after trying to start a fight with a student at Raab Park in North Kitsap.

He went across the street to the campus of North Kitsap High School and later returned to the park, where he was reported to have fired off a round from the gun. Investigators believe the gun was stolen from the boy's home on Naval Base Kitsap?Bangor.